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The effect of psychiatric hospital admission on persons in employment in England and Wales

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This paper deals with the effect of psychiatric hospital admission on persons in employment. Relapse at work has been shown to constitute a major difficulty both to employers and to the ex-mental patient employee himself. Analysing particular data provided by two groups of employers, the paper shows that five out of six employees in the first sample, and four out of five in the second, admitted for in-patient treatment, returned to their old jobs. Of the remainder, the majority drifted ‘downwards’ as expected, but a very small minority moved ‘up’ the Registrar-General's socio-economic group scale. Reasons for termination of employment are also examined, for some employees experienced relapses of a severity which prevented their continuing to work at all. Throughout, the character of the selected respondent groups is closely defined.

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  1. Department of Sociology & Social Administration, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

    S. N. Wansbrough

  2. Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

    P. J. Cooper

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Wansbrough, S.N., Cooper, P.J. The effect of psychiatric hospital admission on persons in employment in England and Wales. Soc Psychiatry 13, 219–229 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00582752

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